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David Lamb, for Luke Scorer, said he is a hard working family man, of previous good character, who had been drinking that day at a BBQ.

Mr Lamb added: "The defendant held a mistaken belief, no doubt because of his state of intoxication, that in some way someone in the house in question was in some way, erroneously, obviously, involved in the death.

"He is clearly wrong about that, he is clearly misguided and should not have gone around there, armed with a spade or not."

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Andrew Walker, defending Richard Scorer, said the construction worker, who is a dad and grandad, was injured himself in the trouble that night and had arrived at the house when the attack was already underway.